BJP leaders taken into preventive custody by police

More than 2,000 BJP workers, as planned earlier, had come in a rally to gherao the office of the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) central division and submit a memorandum to him demanding stringent action against those involved in chit fund and land scam in the state.

The protest rally was led by senior party leaders Bijay Mohapatra, Samir Dey, former MLA Pratap Sarangi, former city mayor Nibedita Pradhan and other frontline leaders of BJP.

But the protesters got upset when they learnt that RDC Bikash Chandra Mohapatra was not in his office to receive the BJP memorandum. The BJP workers then tried to force their entry into the office of the RDC by breaking the police barricade leading to a scuffle.

The fracas between BJP workers and police continued for over 15 minutes and normalcy returned when the key leaders of BJP were taken into preventive custody.

"When the situation went out of control, we have taken some senior leaders into preventive custody," said city DCP Sanjiv Arora.

"We will continue our state wide protest in a more vigorous way till the Chief Minister and other ruling party leaders involved in chit fund and land scam are arrested," said Singhdeo while he was taken into custody by police.

Other leaders like Mohapatra and Sarangi also made similar threats saying that the "lawlessness" and "high handedness" of the ruling party shall not be tolerated in future.

Source: MP News in Hindi and Chhattisgarh Hindi News

Business leaders raise bar of expectations from Modi government

Highlighting that deregulation, trade liberalisation and infrastructure development are key factors for attracting investments in India, Kojima said, "Prime Minister Modi has initiated a wide range of reforms and I am sure these will help achieve those goals."

Speaking at the India Economic Summit here, Kojima said it was difficult to do business in India as "different states have different regulations and taxation" and Japanese firm like Mitsubishi were keenly looking forward to Modi's assurances given during his visit to Japan in September to bring about a change in the system.

Expressing similar sentiments, Mahindra pointed out that once the infrastructure projects get going, investments will start flowing into India that will help spur growth.

"The trigger will come when infrastructure spending starts. Once you see the backhoe loaders out there digging up, showing sign of activities, we will see flicker of growth in the coming months...by the first quarter of next fiscal, you will see palpable signs of growth,," he added.

Stating that there is an opportunity for "the new India" under the current NDA regime to showcase itself to the world as business and political leaders gather at the summit in the next two days here, Mahindra said the steps taken by the government which "the world sees as incremental reforms", would add up to big reforms. But it was also "time to for us walk the talk", he added.

On her expectations going forward now that India has a new government, Chairperson and Editorial Director of HT Media Shobhana Bhartia said: "It is a very interesting period for us to pause and look and what has happened and what we can expect going forward. Specifically in connection with employment.."

Source: MP News in Hindi and Chhattisgarh Hindi News

Compare NDA and UPA stance on black money: Radha Mohan Singh

"Black money issue has today become an important issue in the country. Leaders of different political parties are expressing their opinion on the subject. In my view a leader shall speak with gravity on the matter after pondering over comparative efforts of NDA and UPA governments on the topic," Singh said in a statement here.
  
The Union Agriculture minister's statement seems aimed at RJD chief Lalu Prasad and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar who have been attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi on black money issue.
  
Singh, MP from Motihari, said in 2011 Supreme Court had ordered for constitution of SIT (Special Investigation Team) which UPA (in which Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar are important partners today) had vehemently opposed.
  
In November 2013, Congress-led UPA had filed a petition in the SC requesting permission to make some changes in the Apex Court order on setting up SIT which the court had disallowed, he said.
  
In May 2014, in its last days UPA had submitted a review petition in the SC requesting quashing of its order on SIT constitution, Singh said.
  
The UPA deliberately created delay in the SC on the issue and in the meantime it pardoned over 100 account holders in foreign banks where black money was stashed away, the minister said and added the Apex Court had expressed its annoyance over the stance.
  
On the contrary, the Narendra Modi government in its very first Cabinet meeting approved the proposal to constitute SIT on black money, Singh said.
  
SIT Chairman M B Shah has appreciated the government for handing over list of account holders prepared on the basis of information from France and Germany, he said.
  
The SIT chief has said it was clear from government's efforts that it did not want to protect anybody, Singh said hailing Union government on black money issue.

Source: MP News in Hindi and Chhattisgarh Hindi News